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Name: LEO PETER SIKORSKIDate of Birth: 7/29/1933Date of Casualty: 9/17/1969Home of Record: DETROIT, MICHIGAN Branch of Service: ARMYRank: LTCCasualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAMCasualty Province: LONG AN
2 COLONELS KILLED IN COLLISION OF HELICOPTERS
NEAR SAIGON

SAIGON, September 19, 1969 - Colonel Dale
J. Crittenberger, a United States Army brigade commander and the son
a a noted World War II general, was killed in a helicopter collision in
the Mekong Delta, the Army announced today.

Colonel Crittenberger, 42 years old, and 11
other Americans died when two helicopters collided in the aidWednesday
18 miles southwestof Saigon. There were no survivors.

Also killed in the crash was Lieueutenant Colonel
Leo P. Sikorski, 36.

Colonel Crittenberger, a 1950 graduate of West
Point, was commander of the Ninth Infantry Division's Third Brigade and
hadbeen scheduled to go home in 35days. He was the son of Lieuenant
General Willis D. Crittenberger, who commanded the Fourth Army Corps in
its drive from Rome up the Italian penninsula in World War II.